Tom Lane wrote:
>Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org> writes:
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>>>I am thinking the easiest solution will be to re-add get_progname() to
>>>8.0.X and bump the major for 8.1.
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>>Seconded. Then we don't need another library version, and it is still
>>not necessary to drag this get_progname accident forever.
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>We're going to stop dragging the accident now, not a year from now.
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>Putting get_progname back into libpq would require re-adding all of
>path.c, which creates many more issues than just adjusting
>SO_MAJOR_VERSION would do.
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Maybe I'm dense, but I don't understand why this is causing anyone a
headache. Why would one install the 8.0 libs without the 8.0 clients?
cheers
andrew